I am Freezing today. I am so Cold I capitalize.
Tonight is the second playtest of my kapcon game and I'm feeling quite nervous actually. Having two Roleplaying neophytes is exciting because they won't have any preconcieved notions of gameplay or any 'baggage' to unlearn, but at the same time I'm worried that they won't like it and will never roleplay again and it'll be All My Fault(tm).
A casual comment of Rachel's about running out of the room in tears has me worried, since I've been in situations where that's happened and it isn't nice for anyone. Pretty sure she was joking, but then again my game isn't about girls being nice to each other, quite the opposite...so I don't know. I'm worrying about this because I'm bored, essentially. I won't worry at all when I run it at Kapcon because the convention atmosphere is so casual. You know when you go to it that some games will be good and some not so great and that's all fine.
Anyway, I bought a supermarket cake with pink icing on it, so if anyone does get upset we can smother the bad feelings with comfort food and that will still be *completely* in the essence of the game.
What else?
I'm reading Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede, which is one of the ones recommended to me by the library grrls for strong female leads. I like it, but I don't *love* it. It's very cleverly written with a strong theme of things not being done because it isn't proper and the main Princess doing whatever she wants regardless.
Vertigo last night was good. I found I hadn't remembered as much of it as I thought and was pleased to find as I watched that I had completely forgotten the ending! I like Kim Novak, but Grace is still the one for me. Also love Tippi Hedren more than Kim when I think about it.
Posted by jenni at November 24, 2005 01:48 PM